"States' Rights" and "Nullification," 4046-4053 tariff law of 1828, 4048 Tariff compromise, 4052, 4058 territory claimed by states, Eighteenth Thirteenth Amendment adopted, 4210, Venezuela boundary dispute, 4274-4277 war with France, 3998, 3999 war with the Nez Perces, 4255, 4256 war with Mexico, 4077-4087 war with Modocs, 4245, 4246 war with Spain, 4279-4305 war with the Seminoles, 4058-4060 wars with the Sioux, 4162, 4163, 4252, Copperheads of, 4167 Emancipation Proclamation issued, 41 4166 end of, 4218-4228 England protests against building ship national armies at close of, 4223 opening of the Mississippi, 4174-4176 peace conference at Fortress Monre Red River expedition, 4189, 4190 slavery abolished in the, 4210, 4211 victories of Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, 4199-4201 prisons of, 4224, 4225 United States of America, Presidential elec Adams (John) and Jefferson, 3996 4045 Buchanan and Breckenridge, 4107, 4108 Hayes and Wheeler, 4253, 4254 Vaillant, 3854 Valais, canton of, 3435 Valakhesh, or Volagases, 1680 Valencia, province of, 3009, 3010 siege and bombardment of, 3694 siege and fall of, 2987 Valens, 1494-1498 Valentinian I., 1494, 1495 Valentinian II., 1495-1500 Valentinian III., 1507-1510 Valerian, 1447, 1448 Valerien, Fort, 3671, 3674, 3682, 3683 Valerius, 1150 Valerius, another, 1174 Valerius, Marcus, 1215 Valhalla, 1975 Valladolid, 2527, 3469 Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 4113, 4184, 4208 Valle, Adolfo, 4362 Valley Forge, 3252-3254 Valois, dynasty of, 2166-2232, 2547-2609, Valois, Philip of, 2166-2170 Valparaiso, naval battles of, 4371 riot at, 4267, 4373, 4374 Valverde, the priest, 2543 Van Artevelde, James, or Jaques, 2293, 2667 Vandals, 1452, 1505-1508, 1510, 1521, 1522, 1576 capture of Rome by, 1510 home of, 1522 Kingdom of, in Africa, founded, 1508 Kingdom of, in Africa, conquered by Vandamme, 3488, 3489 Van Diemen's Land, 3569 Van Dorn, General Earl, 4148, 4151, 4179 Vassili III., Grand Duke of Russia, 2430 Vassili V., Autocrat of all the Russias, 3045 Vassili VI., Czar of Russia, 3051, 3052 Vasvar, truce of, 3059 Vatican, in Rome, building of, 1907 Vauban, the engineer, 2981, 2984, 2989, 2995, Vauchambps, battle of, 3493 Vaudois, or Waldenses, 2590, 2591, 2704 persecutions of the, 2590, 2591 theology of the, 622-628 Vedic age, 621-628 Vega, Lope de, 3027 Veii, Roman conquest of, 1161–1163 Velasquez, 3028 Venables, Admiral, 2862, 4349 Vendeans, 3387-3389, 3402, 3403 : in FIE Verde Islands, Cape de, discovery of, 2522 Mia: Verdi, 3967 Verdun, partition treaty of, 1905 Vergesack, General, 3459 ted Vergniaud, 3377 dk. Vermandois, Count Hugh of, 2061 Vermont, 3250, 3295 admission of, 3978 Vernet, Horace, 3967 Vernon, Admiral, 3098, 3287 Vernon, Mount, 3285, 3287, 3973, 4002 Veronese, Paul, 2805 Verplanck's Point, capture of, 3261 Versailles, peace of, in 1782, 3281 Verus, Lucius, 1424-1426 Vespucci, Amerigo, 2527 Vesta, 724, 1138 Vestal fire, 1138 Vestal Virgins, 1138, 1139 eruption of, in A. D., 79, 1414 Vetranio, 1481, 1482 long reign of, 3833, 3836 made Empress of India, 3661 marriage of, 3563 death of 3833-3837 receives the Koh-i-noor diamond, 3567 Victoria, wife of Emperor Frederick of Ger- many, 3870 death of, 3877, 3878 Victorio, Indian Chief, 4257 Vienna, Concordat of, 2123 congress of, 3496, 3521 first siege of, by the Turks, 2583 Peace of, in 1864, 3645 Peace of, in 1866, 3648 second siege of, by the Turks, 3060, 3061 Third Treaty of, in 1738, 3096 Vigo Bay, battle of, 3006 Vikings, 1959-1966 Villa Franca, Peace of, 3630 Villagos, Görgey's surrender at, 3605 Villars, Marshal, 3006, 3007, 3012, 3014, 3095 Villaviciosa, first battle of, 3023 second battle of, 3013 Villele, 3525-3527 Villemur, burning of, 2077 Viller Excel, capture of, 3675 Villeroi, Marshal, 3000, 3004, 3006, 3009 Villiers, George, 2817 Vimiera, battle of, 3464 Vincennes, France, 2152, 3438 Vincennes, Indiana, 3018 Vinci, Leonardo da, 2804 Vindex, Julius, 1406 Vindya mountains, 613 Vinoy, General, 3682, 3688 Virginia, colony of, 2931-2933 Bacon's Rebellion in, 2932 House of Burgesses in, 2932 under Governor Berkeley, 2932, 2933 Virginia, State of, 3310 secession of, 4129 readmission of, 4238 Virginia, Roman maiden, 1158, 1159 Virginius, Roman plebeian, 1158, 1159 Visconti, family of, 2387 , Vishnu, the God, 642-646 Avatars of, 643, 644 Visigoths, 1497, 1498, 1501, 1506, 1507, 1509, 1522, 1526-1533 Kingdom of, in Spain, 1526-1533 Vitellius, 1409-1411 Vitiges, 1536, 1577 Vitry, castle of, burning of the, 2141 Vladivostok, 4695 bombardment of, 4705 Voelkersham, Admiral, 3886, 4730 Vollaterra, battle of, 1180 Volcanalia, 1138 Volney, 3511 Volscians, 1122, 1150, 1151, 1153 Voltaire, 3139-3141 visit of, to Frederick the Great, 3093 Volumnia, 1151 Volusianus, 1447 Vomises, 503 Von Bülow, Count, 3877 Von Caprivi, General, 3870, 3872 Von Der Tann, General, 3671, 3672 Von Hardenberg, Chancellor, 3401, 3473 Von Stein, Baron, 3473 Voulant, 3394 Vratza, capture of, 3747 Vul, or Iva, the Air-god, 297, 298, 310, 311 Val-lush I., 142, 143 Val-lush II., 155 Val-lush III., 168-171 WADE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 410 Waddington, 3719, 3842 Wadsworth, Captain, 2939 Wadsworth, General James Samuel, 4194 Wagner, 3967 Wagner, Fort, capture of, 4178 Wagram, battle of, 3471 Wahabes, or Wahabites, 3455, 3519, 3572 Waite, Morrison Remick, 4243, 4244 Wakefield, battle of, 2335, 2336 Waldeck, Heinrich von, 2107 Waldeck, Prince of, 2998 Waldemar Atterdag, King of Denmark, 2413 Waldemar the Great, King of Denmark, 2411 Waldenses, or Vaudois, persecutions of the Waldo, Peter, 2704 Wales, conquest of, 2279 inhabitants of, 1558, 1559 Wales, first Prince of, 2279, 2280 Wales, New South, 3568 Walker, Leroy Pope, 4128 Walker, Sir Hovenden, 2937, 3115 Walker, General Sir Frederick William Ed- ward Forestier, 4504 Wall of Antonine, 1423 Wallace, General Lewis, 4137, 4199 Wallace, General William Harvey Lamb, 4147 Wallace, William, 2283-2285, 2370, 2371 Waller, Sir William, 2483 Wallenstein, Albert von, 2740-2783, 2786-2790 barbarous conduct of, 2780, 2782 infamous bargain of, with Ferdinand II. military career of, 2740-2783, 2786–2790 |